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Omnium is slightly misleading as a name. It suggests “everything”. So I was hoping for some really different cycling skills on show

To the untrained eye, there is surprisingly little difference between a man
cycling round a cambered track 16 times in four minutes and 50 seconds, and
another man doing the same thing in a period of time just 20 seconds
shorter. Both of them have their heads down, and their legs pumping; both
are eerily soundless; both, oddly, fail to acknowledge in any way the
adoring cheers of the crowd as they go round.

Yesterday morning, however, by the time Great Britain’s Ed Clancy rode in the
individual pursuit at the Velodrome — the fourth of his six omnium events —
my